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If any single platform can be fingered as the favorite of the rioters, it appears to be Facebook. Yet Facebook remains unmolested by app stores and untargeted by opportunistic politicians.It’s been more than a month since the app stores of Google and Apple joined forces with Amazon Web Services to knee-cap an upstart competitor, Parler. The stated reasoning was Parler’s lack of content moderation policies, which Apple, in particular, claimed led to Parler’s use as a forum to “plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington DC on January 6, 2021.”This reasoning was confidently repeated across the corporate press....

Maputo (AFP) - The leader of Mozambique's second largest opposition party and a top mayor who fought climate change in his low-lying coastal city Beira, Daviz Simango, has died aged 57, his family said Monday. He was transferred to a South African hospital last week for treatment, his brother Lutero Simango said in a text message, without disclosing the nature of the illness. As mayor of Beira, a key port that lies below sea level, Simango worked to shore up the city's climate defences against rising seas, flooding and storms.

President Biden suggests that former military and former police officers are helping to fuel the growth of white supremacy and white supremacist groups in America. ... “The most dangerous people in America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat to terror in America: domestic terror.” The President continued by alleging there are certain groups of people helping white supremacy spread in America. “You see what’s happening — and the studies that are beginning to be done … about the impact of former military, former police officers, on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups,” he said.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In spite of Democrats' best efforts to curb the use of fossil fuels, stubborn Americans continue to use them to power their automobiles and heat their homes. Biden is responding to this crisis with an ambitious new plan to raise the price of gas to $100 per gallon by the end of his first 100 days in office. "Listen-- all these fossil fuels, they gotta stop! Gotta stop!" Biden said to the Secret Service agent pumping gas into his presidential limo. "We gotta do something about these selfish Americans and one-horse kangaroo herders burning all these fuels without consequences....

It's the story of a Black man in Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith's own community of New Haven, Connecticut, that illustrates why she is so determined to bridge racial health disparities. The man had been living with chronic diseases, including diabetes, and was on dialysis. He used a wheelchair to get around. When he developed a fever and shortness of breath last April, he tried to get tested for Covid-19, Nunez-Smith said, without success. Within 24 hours, he was dead. Tests later confirmed he did, in fact, have SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. "It struck me very deeply," Nunez-Smith said. The...

A Catholic Sinner Seeks Communion—And Happens to Be PresidentSome bishops—and many conservative laypeople—think Joe Biden should be denied access to one of the faith’s most important sacraments.February 21, 2021Getty / Adam Maida / The AtlanticFather Kevin Gillespie and the staff at Holy Trinity Catholic Church find out that President Joe Biden is coming to Mass an hour and a half ahead of time. For security reasons, only a few people can know, including the music director, who might otherwise get suspicious when Secret Service agents start poking around in her piano. The parish limits its services to 50 people to...

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Weekends” that America has “one functional party and a cult of personality around Donald Trump,” referring to the Democratic and Republican Parties, respectively.

COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 1.After hitting the jackpot with Donald Trump’s endorsement for MyPillow and after a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns, Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the “Big Lie” that Dominion had stolen the 2020 electionPDF here of the docket (115 pages)

Democrats unveiled an immigration bill last week that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants as conditions worsen on the border.Perhaps Democrats could have picked a worse time to unveil their expansive immigration bill that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, but not much worse. The legislation, introduced Thursday by congressional Democrats with the full support of the Biden administration, dubbed the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021,” comes as President Biden is rolling back border security measures implemented under Trump and the number of illegal border crossings is surging on the southwest border. Combined with the ongoing...

Join the RSBN Crew LIVE from CPAC 2021 in Orlando, FL for full coverage of all the action on the ground- see all of the main speakers from the general session plus interviews from our booth on broadcast row!

He's on-the-air, and on-fire. Chris Plante from WMAL, 105.9 FM, in DC, is rated in America's Top 10 Talk Radio Show Hosts. His show is the "prep work" for many other shows. And, unlike the others, he pulls no punches, tells it like it is and doesn't take any BS from liberal, demonKKKrat, leftist, commie, socialist, fascist, marxist and anarchist callers. He's the guy we'd all like to sit down with and have a dbl-cheeseburger and a cold one, while talking about the state of America, and the crazies who are pulling the strings, behind-the-scenes. Get a fresh refill of...

Hollywood, using Harry Potter’s words, is “The word whose name I will not repeat.” The former head of the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Brooks, warned us in a 2015 New York Times opinion piece, “Back in 1993, the misanthropic art critic Robert Hughes published a grumpy, entertaining book called ‘Culture of Complaint,’ in which he predicted that America was doomed to become increasingly an ‘infantilized culture’ of victimhood.”Hollywierd has been a blatant abettor of American victimhood and other progressive thought on the silver screen, the Oscars shows, TV and cable, and through its leftist actors and producers. It is often...

Regardless of how our enemies and rogue regimes felt about President Trump, they feared him. They knew his words meant something. They knew he would rain down hurt if they got out of hand. That kept us out of war. But now it's easy to see we have a weak president who will appease our enemies and not support friends like Israel. The CCP and other regimes are watching and waiting. Where will they strike first? I pray not, but I am watching Taiwan. The CCP will likely test our resolve in smaller ways and when they see our weakness...

Bright and early yesterday morning Mr. LINCOLN arose, and rapidly disposed of his early callers, his TIMES and his breakfast, for he was to start en route at 8.15. The time of departure was at first fixed for 9 o'clock, but changed to an earlier hour in consequence of the anticipated delay at Jersey City, owing to the reception by the Common Council. It was deemed necessary to depart from the original programme in order to avoid interference. Mrs. LINCOLN and children reached the special train by a private conveyance. Promptly at the hour named, Mr. VAN RANST was at...

Guest Piece by America’s History Teacher, Larry Schweikart A new book by Helen Andrews, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster—and the accompanying review in American Greatness by Chris Buskirk is mostly an accurate snapshot of the generation that followed “the Greatest.” (https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/the-baby-boomers-dismal-legacy/) Mostly. PlayUnmute Fullscreen VDO.AI There is a severe lack of context in judgments about Boomers as disasters. I have not come to praise the Boomers, but to put them in the context of their burial clothes. Without that context, one would mindlessly accept all the criticisms of the Gen-Xers and Millennials (who, so...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and Shepherds.Isaiah 2712 In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) Isaiah speaks of the ingathering of the House of Israel.New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

WASHINGTON - Chinese spies used code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, Israeli researchers said on Monday, another indication of how malicious software developed by governments can boomerang against their creators. Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies issued a report noting that some features in a piece of China-linked malware it dubs “Jian” were so similar they could only have been stolen from some of the National Security Agency break-in tools leaked to the internet in 2017. Yaniv Balmas, Checkpoint’s head of research, called Jian “kind of a copycat, a Chinese replica.” The...

A suspect in a Philadelphia carjacking was shot in the head after authorities say he was trying to rob a second person Monday night. The person-of-interest in the carjacking is in critical condition, NBC 10 is reporting. According to reports, around 6 p.m., two robbers stole a man’s wallet, cellphone and car at 10th and Spruce streets. Then around 8:40 p.m., they tried to rob another man at 18th and Callowhill streets, but that man pulled out a gun and opened fire, shooting one of the suspects, reports indicate. About 20 minutes later, police say a man in his mid-20s...

The U.S. House of Representatives has taken up H.R. 40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act which begs some hard questions three generations after slavery was abolished.Slavery is not the only springboard for the debate. The history of the Democrat Party, their role in slavery and how they hold a great deal of responsibility for the plight of the African slave during and after slavery cannot be overstated as they now lead Commission discussions with unclean hands, the political descendants of slavery itself. For the record, the sin of slavery in the U.S. was...